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Welcome to HP/QC

We’ll help you feel welcome and first-time guests will feel like old friends. From the parking lot to inside of the building, you will find people that are truly glad you’re here to worship, learn, and make friends. Our goal is to make you feel like you’re home!

Learn More About Hyde Park

As Austin has grown and changed so has Hyde Park Baptist/The Quarries Church. We have embraced new people, new ways to communicate, new opportunities to serve others, and new ways to meet the challenges of the 21st Century. The business and education growth in Austin has brought the world to our doorstep and we couldn’t be happier! Join us. Grow, change, embrace all that God has for you.

Hyde Park Media

We strive to provide resources to help support and encourage your walk. If you’re out of town, you can live stream the 11am Worship Service or listen to the podcast. If you want to listen to a message again or share with a friend, you can peruse our sermon archives.

ReFocus 2017

About Us

Engaging Austin to passionately pursue Jesus.

Click here to see the Refocus Sunday sermon.
This vision helps define our focus--everything we do as a church grows out of this statement of vision.

1) It's ultimately about Jesus!

2) It's about more than our desire to follow Jesus, it's about a passionate pursuit--He deserves all our energy and focus!

3) It's about even more than our passionate pursuit of Jesus--it can't stop there. For us the ministry is outward focused--we want to engage our entire city to passionately pursue Jesus, too.

Our 5 Priorities

WORSHIP

"We believe Jesus Christ deserves all our worship and praise. Therefore, we will enthusiastically gather as the church with one main objective: to passionately pursue Jesus!"

Scripture: "But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." (John 4:23-24)

Focus Goal: Our goal is to average 2,000 people in worship attendance by 2021

Currently we have 3 main English speaking worship services at Hyde Park Baptist and The Quarries Church plus multiple language congregations. In addition to continuing our desire to be faithful, creative, and prepared for a great experience every Sunday, we believe the following actions will help improve our annual average worship attendance.

🔹Action: Focus more positive outreach on the 4 neighborhoods closest to the Hyde Park Campus: (Hyde Park, Mueller, Triangle, and Tarrytown), and the multiple neighborhoods surrounding The Quarries Church

🔹Action: Assist our existing language churches to be more effective in building their weekly average attendance, and encourage the development of additional language congregations as Austin continues to grow as one of the most "international" cities in Texas

🔹Action: Focus more attention on inviting the community and growing attendance on "special days" such as Easter, Mother's Day, Graduate Recognition Sunday, Independence Day, etc

🔹Action: Promote special "theme" Sunday's which could include special musical artists and guest speakers who attract an unreached audience; special musical emphasis spotlighting different genres of church music, and other creative "special" events

🔹Action: Constantly improve the appearance and comfort of our facilities to promote the best "first impression" possible so people always feel welcome and want to return

🔹Action: We must be more intentional and culturally relevant in public relations, social media, advertising, and other emerging media platforms, in order to build community awareness and as we invite more people to attend our services.

🔹Action: Work with Hyde Park Schools to ensure that every family in our school and every family who applies to our school is invited to worship at HP/QC

Focus Goal: Begin a third campus (in addition to Hyde Park & The Quarries) by 2019

🔹Action: Work with The Austin Baptist Association to identify highly populated, under-churched areas of our city

🔹Action: Enlist a task force of our own members to help develop all aspects of a plan to launch a third location for multi-site ministry

🔹Action: Work with the ministry staff to develop initial and ongoing plans to successfully minister in multiple locations

Focus Goal: Begin at least one new worship service by 2018 using existing HP/QC facilities

🔹Action: Staff will begin immediately studying opportunities, reviewing options, and making plans, for additional worship services. We will work with all existing church committees and normal church processes for a successful implementation

🔹Action: Church staff will recruit and train volunteers to assist in new worship services

GROW

"We believe people's lives are transformed by the Word of God. Furthermore, we believe, due to our history, our gifting, and our vision, we are strategically positioned to be one of the leading Bible teaching churches in Central Texas. Therefore, we will passionately pursue spiritual growth for everyone through excellent Bible teaching classes and communities called GROW GROUPS."

Scripture: "All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work." (2 Timothy 3:16-17)

Focus Goal: Our goal is to reach an annual average of 1,600 people in our "Grow Groups" (Sunday School & Community Groups) by 2021

🔹Action: The Discipleship Ministry at both existing campuses will emphasize our

core SS/CG values (excellence in Bible teaching, fellowship, care ministry, prayer, and outreach) through ongoing and constantly improved leadership training. These training events will be held quarterly at a minimum at each campus and at least annually in a combined setting

🔹Action: To encourage unity and more effective operations throughout our Discipleship ministry, we will refer to Sunday School classes and Community Groups as "GROW GROUPS" when referring to to the discipleship process of our church at all locations

🔹Action: The Discipleship Ministry will launch 3 new GROW GROUPS (SS classes) each quarter beginning in Fall 2017 at the Hyde Park Campus

🔹Action: The Discipleship Ministry will launch multiple Sunday morning options for GROW GROUPS (Community Groups) at The Quarries Church beginning no later than Fall 2017

🔹Action: Staff will continue to work with existing volunteer leadership at both locations, as well as enlist and equip new volunteer leaders needed for successful groups

🔹Action: Staff will focus on developing closer compatibility between the HP and the QC discipleship process while recognizing the unique qualities and history of each and drawing from the existing strengths of each approach. We must have a more consistent approach to discipleship at all locations in order to simplify and improve the process and avoid reduplication of effort as one church in multiple locations

🔹Action: The Church will recognize the success of any GROW GROUP by how frequently it reproduces itself. Every GROW GROUP should encourage and help to launch new groups.

🔹Action: The Discipleship Staff will hold itself accountable to the priority of enlarging and expanding the leadership organization required to continue growing spiritually and numerically. This will mean setting and achieving leadership enlistment goals each quarter for each area of ministry (children - adults) with a minimum annual net increase of 10-20% new leaders and volunteers in every ministry area (children- adults)

🔹Action: Believing in the importance of each person feeling personally connected to the group and friends in the group, the Discipleship Staff will encourage and promote multiple fellowship opportunities each year with a minimum of one per quarter at each location with the understanding that many smaller fellowships must constantly occur throughout the year

🔹Action: To constantly promote the significance of personal relationships and fellowship, the Discipleship Staff will conduct regular training opportunities designed to make us better at the task of connecting people in the groups, from the smallest levels to the largest levels of the GROW GROUP ministry (children-adults)

SERVE

"We believe every member is a minister in the Kingdom of God. Therefore, as a church we will passionately minister to one another, and the world, to the glory of God."

Scripture: "For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake." (2 Corinthians 4:5)

Focus Goal: We will involve 100% of our new members in at least one ministry/service opportunity within the first year of their membership

🔹Action: The Discipleship staff and the Worship and Media staff will begin immediately offering and promoting multiple and diverse training opportunities to equip 100% of our new members on an on-going basis

🔹Action: For the ongoing equipping of our members, the church ministry staff will work with local and state denominational ministries to provide diverse and comprehensive training opportunities, and resources.

Focus Goal: We will involve 1,000 members, from all campus locations and language groups in ministry and service by 2021

🔹Action: The Ministry Staff will begin immediately developing a public and growing list of ministry and service opportunities, and offer year round training and equipping to support the ministries compiled on the list

🔹Action: The Ministry Staff will constantly offer training and equipping for a wide variety of ministry and service opportunities sufficient to engage all of our members in ministry

🔹Action: We will encourage members to launch personal ministries of service, supported by the staff and church training, with special attention given, but not limited to helping the elderly, the sick, and single parents, as an outreach to the community

🔹Action: Working with Hyde Park Schools, our church ministry staff will keep our congregation informed about ways to serve through the many excellent service projects led annually by our school

🔹Action: We will work with our language pastors to assist the members of their congregations in organized service opportunities to improve help the quality of their lives

Focus Goal: Recognizing the tremendous need for what Jesus called, "laborers in the harvest" we will launch an Academy of Ministry by 2019 to train adults as pastors, church planters, worship leaders, church interns, and others in a one-two year adult learning environment

🔹Action: Beginning in 2017, the Senior Pastor and the Executive Staff will work with appropriate staff and church leadership to develop a comprehensive strategy of implementing, funding, promoting, staffing, and continuing a fully functioning Academy of Ministry.

🔹 We anticipate the need to recruit additional church leadership, beyond existing committees, to help develop and implement the Academy vision

Focus Goal: Realizing that with growth comes opportunity, we will launch a Capital Growth Challenge in 2018

🔹Action: The Senior Pastor and the Executive Staff will work with the Finance Committee, The Deacon Body, and other appropriate groups within our church leadership to determine the specific needs and scope of near future Capital Growth Challenges

Focus Goal: As our church reaches deeper and wider into the community, funds for ministry must be available for service and growth. Therefore, we propose a generosity strategy which will increase our Ministry Budget and receipts to at least $6,750,000 annually by 2021.

🔹 Action: The Ministry Staff will provide a variety of stewardship educational materials and other teaching, regarding the biblical basis of generous living and giving from childhood through adulthood

🔹 Action: Through the use of church media, in worship services, and in GROW GROUPS, we will consistently encourage and educate all members to grow in their commitment to giving

🔹Action: Through pastoral preaching, class room teaching, church media outlets, through the GROW GROUPS, and church member testimonies, we will regularly motivate our membership to live generous lives, support our church financially, and practice biblical principles of stewardship in all areas of life.

🔹Action: We will facilitate opportunities for generous living through the use of age appropriate giving opportunities and the use of new, existing, and future technology such as the Church App, Giving Kiosks, and Online through the Church website.

PRAY

"We believe our church is positioned to be a catalyst for spiritual awakening in Austin, Texas. Therefore, we will continually pursue the vision of Jesus that His church will be a House of Prayer for all nations."

Scripture: "Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? " (Mark 11:17)

Focus Goal: In the Fall of 2017 we will re-launch our "Pastor's Prayer Team" with the new purpose of equipping and maintaining a group of intercessors who will receive and faithfully pray through regular "prayer-mail" sent from the Senior Pastor.

🔹Action: Along with our "Pastor's Prayer Team," we will expand our 24/18 prayer ministry in order to reach a combined total of 750 highly committed and trained members. We will begin immediately and reach our numerical goal by 2019

🔹Action: In the Fall of 2017 we will relaunch our prayer website "iprayaustin.com" to include training updates, information, and resources to encourage the ministry of prayer.

🔹Action: Every year, for one week in January, the Senior Pastor will lead a church wide "Prayer Challenge" to re-focus the staff and congregation on personal spiritual growth.

🔹Action: We will develop and offer frequent training on prayer which will include guest teachers.

🔹Action: Beginning in Spring 2017, we will recruit and train a new group of "prayer counselors" to pray with those who respond during worship service invitations.

🔹Action: We will expand the distribution of a daily prayer list to include as many members as possible who request it

🔹Action: The Senior Pastor and the Worship Pastor will devote one Wednesday night each quarter to lead a large church wide prayer rally at the Hyde Park Campus and one each quarter on Sunday nights at The Quarries Church.

🔹Action: We will continue to partner with the Unceasing Prayer Movement to lead city wide prayer gatherings and train more churches to develop a culture of prayer.

🔹Action: Working with the Unceasing Prayer Movement Hyde Park Baptist/The Quarries Church will host Pastor Jim and Carol Cymbala and The Brooklyn Tabernacle Singers for a city wide prayer gathering in September 2017 held at Hyde Park Baptist Church.

🔹Action: Working with the Unceasing Prayer Movement we will lead a City Wide 40 Day Fast beginning March 1, 2017

🔹Action: Working with Hyde Park Schools, each year, beginning no later than 2018, our church ministry staff will teach prayer in chapel and classrooms for our Hyde Park students

EVANGELIZE

"We believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the only hope of salvation. Therefore, we must do everything possible to reach the lost, and lead by example, as one of the most evangelistic churches in Central Texas, because the next one matters!"

Scripture: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age." (Matthew 28:19-20)

Focus Goal: We will reach and baptize 2,000 more people by 2027

🔹Action: Beginning immediately, each ministry staff member will adopt and passionately pursue specific annual evangelistic goals and strategies for their assigned ministry.

🔹Action: We will host a church-wide "harvest event" with a guest evangelist at least once a year beginning no later than Spring 2018.

🔹Action: The church ministry staff will provide multiple evangelistic opportunities each year (children-adult).

🔹Action: The Senior Pastor will offer at least 2 Church Wide evangelism training opportunities each year beginning in late 2017.

🔹Action: We must be more intentional and culturally relevant in public relations, social media, advertising, and other emerging media platforms to build community awareness and invite more people to attend our ministries and services.

🔹Action: We will work with Hyde Park School to effectively evangelize every student.

Focus Goal: The entire Church Staff and congregation will present the gospel 2,000 times annually.

🔹Action: The ministry staff will develop age appropriate reporting systems to keep track of each gospel presentation resulting from our evangelistic training and renewed emphasis on evangelism.

🔹Action: The ministry staff will lead by example in personal evangelism and reporting the encounter on a weekly basis.

🔹Action: The Discipleship Staff will launch an on-going, monthly church wide evangelistic outreach beginning as soon as possible.

REPORT SCHEDULE

The Senior Pastor and Executive Staff will review the goals, actions, and results on a regular basis and formally report back to the church at last twice a year regarding progress and challenges.

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